TigerVNC

Last updated
TigerVNC
Initial releaseFebruary 27, 2009;16 years ago (2009-02-27)
Stable release
1.15.0 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 13 February 2025;10 months ago (13 February 2025)
Repository
Written in C, C++, Java
Operating system Server: Linux; Client: MS Windows (32-bit/64-bit) (NT/2000/XP), POSIX (Linux/BSD/OS X/UNIX-like OSes), MinGW/MSYS (MS Windows)
Available in English
Type Remote desktop, Remote administration, Distributed computing
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website tigervnc.org

TigerVNC is an open source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server and client software, started as a fork of TightVNC in 2009. [2] The client supports Windows, Linux and macOS. The server supports Linux. There is no server for macOS [3] and as of release 1.11.0 the Windows server is no longer maintained. [4]

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History

Red Hat, Cendio AB, and TurboVNC maintainers started this fork because RealVNC had focused on their enterprise non-open VNC and no TightVNC update had appeared since 2006. [2] The past few years however, Cendio AB who use it for their product ThinLinc is the main contributor to the project. [5] TigerVNC is fully open-source, with development and discussion done via publicly accessible mailing lists and repositories.

TigerVNC has a different feature set than TightVNC, despite its origins. For example, TigerVNC adds encryption for all supported operating systems and not just Linux. Conversely, TightVNC has features that TigerVNC doesn't have, such as file transfers.

TigerVNC focuses on performance and on remote display functionality. [6]

TigerVNC became the default VNC implementation in Fedora shortly after its creation. [7]

A 2010 reviewer found the TigerVNC product "much faster than Vinagre, but not quite as responsive as Remmina". [8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "v1.15.0". 13 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  2. 1 2 Peter Åstrand (2009-02-27). "Open Letter: Leaving TightVNC, Founding TigerVNC". TightVNC mailing list. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
  3. ↑ "Maintain the Windows VNC server again · Issue #1213 · TigerVNC/Tigervnc". GitHub .
  4. ↑ "Release Notes 1.11.0". GitHub . 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  5. ↑ "TigerVNC | ThinLinc by Cendio". www.cendio.com. Retrieved 2019-11-27.
  6. ↑ "Review of TigerVNC". Podnova Windows Library. 2013-03-22. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
  7. ↑ Adam Tkac (2009-03-04). "TightVNC feature has been renamed to TigerVNC". fedora-devel-list, Development discussions related to Fedora. Retrieved 2013-12-02.
  8. ↑ Veitch, Nick (2010-09-17). "TeamViewer, TigerVNC, Vinagre and NoMachine NX". Reviews. Linux Format. No. 136. ISSN   1470-4234. Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
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